The unusual scene of ruling BJD member stalling the Assembly right from the question hour took place on Wednesday forcing the Speaker Pradip Amat to adjourn the entire prelunch session. Raising slogans against the BJP and the Central government, ruling BJD mla’s stood and disrupted proceedings even as the Speaker had asked the Food Minister …

A probe has been ordered after pictures of a young man sitting on Speaker’s chair in the main hall of Gujarat Assembly went viral on social media. Speaker Rajendra Trivedi on Tuesday ordered an inquiry, said Assembly secretary D M Patel. “No one except the Speaker can sit on that chair. It is also a …

Members of Delhi ruling AAP on Tuesday continued to attack bureaucrats for not giving proper written answers to the Delhi assembly questions, among other matters and Speaker Ram Niwas Goel referred three matters to different Assembly committees. Goel also adjourned the House for 30 minutes as a protest against officials not giving written answers to …

The Punjab government will table all reports of the various Commissions set up by it in the Assembly, Chief Minister Amarinder Singh announced on Wednesday. The CM said this while replying to a query raised by the Leader of Opposition Sukhpal Singh Khaira during the speech of MLA Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa on the motion of …

The Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur on Friday presented the state budget proposals for the next fiscal in the Assembly with focus on agriculture, horticulture and rural economy as a whole, committing to double up the income of farmers by 2022. Thakur, who holds the finance portfolio, presented the budget estimates of Rs …

West Bengal’s ruling Trinamool Congress will move a censure motion in the state assembly against the railway budget on Thursday, 8 February, to protest against “drastic slashing of funds” for several projects, a state minister said on Wednesday, 7 February. Disclosing this to the media in Kolkata, state Parliamentary Affairs Minister Partha Chatterjee said if …

The first day of the sixth session (Part IV) of the ninth Assembly saw the presentation of the second supplementary demands for grants for the financial year 2017-18 by Chief Minister Pawan Chamling, who is also the Minister in Charge for Finance Revenue and Expenditure Department. The second supplementary demands for grants includes 37 grants, …

The Opposition is being gagged in the state with a Trinamul Congress state government deciding on a eight-day Budget session begining on 30 January leaving little time to deliberate on utility of the funds allotted for people’s welfare, leader of the Oppositon in the state Assembly said on Thursday. It is the smallest Budget such …

The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Thursday announced the schedule for Nagaland, Tripura and Meghalaya Assembly elections. The polling in Tripura will be held on 18 February. Meghalaya and Nagaland will go to vote on 27 February. The counting of votes in the three states will be on 3 March. The strength of the …

Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia on Monday accused the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) led municipal corporations of “extorting money” in the name of ongoing sealing drive in the national Capital. Speaking during the discussion over the sealing drive in the Assembly, Sisodia said the BJP’s intent behind the drive is to “extort money” and …

The Delhi Assembly witnessed repeated adjournments on Monday as AAP legislators protested loudly over a sealing drive in the city and accused the BJP-led corporations of using it to extort money from business persons. AAP MLAs protested in the well of the House by holding banners against the sealing drive and raised slogans against the …

Former Nagaland Home Minister Yanthungo Patton on Wednesday resigned as member of the assembly. Chief Minister T.R.Zeliang sacked Patton and five others ministers from his ministry last month to facilitate reconciliation between the two wrangling factions of the ruling Naga People’s Front. In his resignation letter submitted to Assembly Speaker Imtiwapang Aier, Patton stated that …

The entire opposition in the assembly, including the National Conference (NC) and Congress, on Wednesday boycotted Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti’s reply to the debate on Governor’s address, alleging her of being “insensitive” towards killing of innocent people in Kashmir. The opposition members accused Mehbooba of running away from making a statement on the sensitive issue …